Reports indicate that Russia has withdrawn from three bases in Northeastern Mali, which the local Tuareg call Azawad, after the offensive by “Azawad Liberation Front” (FLA) Tuareg separatists and al-Qaeda-affiliated “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical Islamists. This is...
Head of publicly financed TASS’ office in Japan, Vasily Golovnin, published a post on Telegram in late April about how India is nowadays emerging as a military-technical competitor to Russia. According to him, its arms sales increased by 63%...
The “Azawad Liberation Front’s” (FLA) spokesman Mohamed Elmaouloud Ramadane published a statement from his organization last week pushing back against those members of the international community that describe it as terrorists following the example of Mali’s interim military authorities....
RT shared a recent interview that top Russian expert Sergey Karaganov, who’s (in)famous for lobbying Putin to nuke Europe, gave to Russia 24. As was explained here earlier in the year, Putin prefers to follow the advice of Karganov’s...
Sudan’s allegation that Ethiopia and the UAE attacked its main airport on Monday from Bahir Dar’s, the capital of Ethiopia’s neighboring Amhara region, prompted a furious diplomatic reaction from Ethiopia. Ethiopia reminded Sudan of its continued support for “Tigray...
“Lavrov Warned About Trump 2.0’s Plans For Global Dominance” in late March, the essence of which was echoed by his spokeswoman Maria Zakharova a month later on 19 April, the first time that Russia commemorated the “Day of Remembrance...
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune shared his assessment of the Malian Crisis in a recent TV interview. He predictably called for dialogue, mentioned how Algeria foresaw what’s unfolding, and condemned those who blame it for what’s happening. Tebboune then claimed...
The Turkish Energy Minister revived talk of the long-discussed Trans-Caspian Pipeline in early April in a live interview with local media where he spoke about his country’s regional pipeline plans, which the Middle East Eye drew attention to here....
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova published an article in the Russian business daily Vedomosti on Monday about the curious case of a Russian diplomat in the US. An unknown employee of the State Department informed them during a...
Conflicting reports have emerged about “Jamaat Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin” (JNIM) radical Islamists allegedly resuming their blockade of Bamako, the Malian capital, after their first such one from late last year was broken with the help of Russia’s Africa Corps...
